I have no idea what you should charge for something like that. However
if prints are included in the fee you have to make sure that you cover
that cost.
The biggest problem I see is marketing. You have to let people know
that you're available for that kind of work.
The second biggest problem is that you are really selling is a luxury
good that is unfortunately something that a parent with a decent camera
and slightly more talent than the average perceives that they could do
for themselves. So that's you competition.
On 10/26/2011 3:46 PM, frank theriault wrote:
I'm in the process of starting a part time photography business.
Here's the idea:
You've got a kid in Little League baseball, minor league hockey, high
school football, soccer, whatever. For a fee, I show up with cameras
in hand and take hundreds of game photos, concentrating on your kid.
It doesn't have to be your kid, it can be anyone you want to pay me to
photograph.
Then I take the best of them, we look through the proofs and you
choose which ones you want have prints made of.
I guess it would be a bit like what Dave Brooks used to do at horsie
shows except rather than take the photos and try to sell them, I'd be
paid in advance to take the pix (my fee would include one free 8x10,
after that you'd pay per print - I'd say my retail plus 50% is
realistic, but I wouldn't tell the clients that).
I've done a bit of research and no one else in town provides this
exact service, near as I can tell. There are guys and gals doing
sports photography, but they'll do a whole team and charge like $2000.
Or, they'll do something similar to Dave where they shoot an event,
post the pix and parents are invited to look online and order the
prints which are then mailed to them by some printing service in the
USA.
So, this would be a more individualized and customized arrangement,
where I'd concentrate on a single player over the course of an event
so the person(s) who hired me could choose from hundreds of photos.
My question is: What does anyone think I should charge for that one
time (up front!) fee? I'm just starting out, so I can't go too high,
but I also don't want to look like some amateur hack by underpricing.
I will be able to show the baseball pix I took this summer along with
a few other events in my on-line ad, but I don't have a web site so
I'm not going to look terribly professional as it is. If this thing
goes well, a more professional presentation will be invested in.
I won't tell anyone what I'm thinking my fee range is just yet, so as
not to skew answers. I'll be most interested to hear what you have to
say.
Thanks in advance for your input!!
cheers,
frank
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